δῶμα
house
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 3 times (43%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 2 times (29%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 2 times (29%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1430 appears — 7 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
Mark 1 verse
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 5:19 δῶμα n acc sg neut Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.
- Luke 12:3 δωμάτων n gen pl neut Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.
- Luke 17:31 δώματος n gen sg neut In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun δωμα centers on the idea of “house.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 10:27. Spanning 7 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 3 of 7 verses. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1430 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 86%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 57%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Housetop 5×, Housetops 2×
- American Standard Version: Housetop 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Housetop 3×, Housetops 2×, Roof 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Housetop 5×, Housetops 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1430 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1430 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1430 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1430 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a building, house
- a part of a building, dining room, hall
- house top, roof
Word origin
Origin: from demo (to build)
From δέμο demō (to build ); properly an edifice that is (specifically) a roof : - housetop.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1430 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δώματος dṓmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 24:17 | 3 |
| δωμάτων dōmátōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 10:27 | 2 |
| δῶμα dō̂ma | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 5:19 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δωμα appears 26 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 13 books.
- 26
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 22:8 δῶμα
- Joshua 2:6 δῶμα
- Judges 9:51 δῶμα
- 1 Samuel 9:25 δῶμα
- 2 Samuel 11:2 δῶμα
- 2 Kings 19:26 δῶμα
- 2 Chronicles 28:4 δῶμα
- Ezra 18:16 δῶμα
- Psalms 101:8 δῶμα
- Proverbs 25:24 δῶμα
- Isaiah 15:3 δῶμα
- Jeremiah 19:13 δῶμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1430) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 22:8 δῶμα When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
- Joshua 2:6 δῶμα But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.
- Joshua 2:8 δῶμα Before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;
- Judges 9:51 δῶμα But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 16:27 δῶμα Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.
- 1 Samuel 9:25 δῶμα When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
- 1 Samuel 9:26 δῶμα They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
- 2 Samuel 11:2 δῶμα It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
- 2 Samuel 16:22 δῶμα So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- 2 Samuel 18:24 δῶμα Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
- 2 Kings 19:26 δῶμα Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
- 2 Kings 23:12 δῶμα The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 28:4 δῶμα He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Ezra 18:16 δῶμα
- Psalms 101:8 δῶμα Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.
- Psalms 128:6 δῶμα Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.
- Proverbs 25:24 δῶμα It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Isaiah 15:3 δῶμα In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
- Isaiah 22:1 δῶμα The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
- Isaiah 37:27 δῶμα Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
- Jeremiah 19:13 δῶμα and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.
- Jeremiah 31:38 δῶμα Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
- Jeremiah 39:29 δῶμα
- Zephaniah 1:5 δῶμα those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1430) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
